Schesir Maintenance Chicken Small Adult Dry Dog Food - 2 kg

Schesir Maintenance Chicken Small Adult Dry Dog Food - 2 kg is a complete and balanced everyday dry food for small adult dogs, made with chicken.

Key Features

• A single source of animal protein: The brand's claim for this recipe, which is more than most everyday kibbles will say.
• Omega 3 and omega 6 with brewer's yeast: The brand's stated package for skin and coat, and the part that shows first.
• Sized for small adult dogs: Kibble size and calorie density to match a small dog.
• No added colourings or preservatives: The brand's claim across its dry food.

One Named Animal Protein

• Schesir states a single animal protein source for this recipe, and that is the reason to pick it over an everyday food that blends several.
• It matters if you are working out what your dog reacts to, because you cannot run that test on a food with four meats in it.
• The claim is about the animal protein specifically. A dry food can still carry plant proteins such as corn gluten alongside it, so for a strict elimination diet ask us for the full panel and talk to your vet about how to run it.

A Complete Food, Unlike Schesir's Complements Line

• Complete and balanced, so this can be the whole diet.
• Worth saying because Schesir also sells a Complements line, which is a complementary food by its own label and carries a two-servings-a-day ceiling. The names are similar and the consequence is not.

A Dry Food Carries Almost No Water

• That is the convenience and it is also the catch. A dog living on dry food alone has to drink the difference, and in this climate that is not a small difference.
• Keep water available and topped up, and consider a wet meal mixed through. Schesir's own feeding advice suggests alternating its dry and wet food, and says plainly that this is advisable rather than necessary.
• Reseal the bag and keep it out of the kitchen heat. The fat in a dry food goes off, and an opened bag here goes stale faster than the date suggests.

Good To Know

• Mix a new dry food into the old one over a week or so rather than swapping the bowl in one go. A sudden switch loosens most dogs, and you will blame the food rather than the speed of the change.
• Chicken is the commonest thing for a dog to react to, so if you are hunting an intolerance this is the one to rule out rather than the one to start with. The lamb and the fish versions of this same food are the better first test and we will show you both.
• The same recipe is also listed here as a separate 800 g product rather than as a size on this page. Ask us and we will quote whichever works out cheaper.
• Ask us for the composition and the analysis and we will photograph them. Most of the Schesir dry dog foods do not publish theirs, and the front of a bag is not enough to compare two foods on.